Another Wonderful Baby Shower

Lucy is going to be one lucky baby. She's going to born into a plethora of wonderful aunties, great-aunties, grandmas and more! 

My sister in law planned a shower for Saturday. It was a nice brunch with some of my favorite people. She had everyone write down a favorite memory that they had with their mom and put all the memories in a flip-photo book. I got chills while reading through them! I can't wait for Lucy and I to create such sentimental memories of our own! 

The shower was at Creation Cafe and overlooked the canal in downtown Indianapolis. Here are some pictures from the shower:

 

  

We received such nice gifts. I think we're all ready for Lucy. Her once-empty nursery feels full of everything she's going to need. I can't wait to dress her in the wardrobe of clothes from my ever so fashionable friend Hannah :) 

Thank you to everyone who came into town for the shower! And thanks Kels for all the planning! Mwah!

34 weeks

Little Lucy is now 34 weeks. Yep, the size of a durian. I won't even comment about this weeks fruit/veggie obscureness. All I know is that I'm thankful that she's a lot smoother than that prickly kooshball!

My bump keeps growing. Every morning I wake up and my belly feels harder, and every night it becomes harder to get any sleep. That's probably because I've got almost a 5 pounds real moving person in there.

Lucy is a super super super active baby.  The doctor warned me, to let him know if there's any decrease in her movement, or if I don't feel her move for a long period of time. I had to ask, "is there such thing as too much movement?" because I don't think she ever stops moving!

And here's yesterday's photo of my bump (or bulge)...

Only about 6 weeks left...

33 Weeks

Lucy and I are at 33 weeks. That means we've reached the 50 day countdown.

The bump has her at the size of a honeydew. 

Not sure why I've gained 35 pounds, when she only accounts for about 5 pounds... oh well. 

We had our 33 week check up this morning. Nothing new. Lucy has flipped into the head down position (this is a good thing). I go back in 2 weeks.

I'll end this with a joke that I heard yesterday: Why doesn't anyone play poker in Africa??

Because there are too many cheetahs.

A Nice Relaxing Weekend

Our babies on four legs...

 Our new baby on four wheels...

Sorry, it was dark when I took the picture

We went to see Fiddler on the Roof at the Murat with Kyle's parents on Friday. It was a great performance. It's an excellent musical if you haven't ever seen it. And I didn't fall asleep during it (like I do when watching the movie).

The rest of the weekend we spent hanging out with Steve and Susan (Kyle's parents). We checked out their new house. Picked out an outfit for Lucy to wear home from the hospital. Picked up our new car. Watched college basketball. 

It seems like we usually see Steve and Susan for a few hours and then head back home. It was nice spending a longer time with them.

Our Poor Man's March Totals:

Dog Food: $10.30 (I had some coupons and a left over gift card)

Popcorn and Soda - $2

Soda and Water - $6

Gift - $12

Contact Solution - $13

Red Box - $1.28

Grocery Store - $6.48

Fast Food Totals: Michelle - 2, Kyle - 2

I checked our credit card bill this morning. Holy moly, it was low :) I actually don't remember it ever being so low. The only other things on it was our phone bill and gas for our cars (which wasn't very high, since we haven't been traveling much).

This week I may get to sneak in a few extra "free" Starbucks trips too (Thank you, Christine Lynn!)

P.S. for the last few days, I haven't been able to get this out of my head:

"If I were a rich man,
Yubby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dum."  

Hopefully Lucy enjoys that song, since I'm constantly singing it, and she has no choice but to listen. I should probably learn a few more lines to make it more interesting for her...

P.S.S.  We decided that maybe Kyle will drive the new car and I'll drive the mazda3. Parking the Xterra in a busy parking lot was quite humorous. Though, I think the cars around me were getting quite annoyed. I felt like I kept backing up and doing the same thing over and over again. I felt like I was parking a school bus... or at least a minivan! Now I know why they have you just leave the vehicle out front after the test drive, instead of having you try to maneuver it into a tiny parking spot. Sheesh!

Poor Man's March = Epic Fail and 32 week milestone

Well... we decided that we’re not going to buy an ipad 2. That’s because we bought a Nissan Xterra instead.

It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles as the Xterra we were originally looking at, but this one was much closer to our budget. We pick it up on Saturday (we'll post pictures this weekend). After months of looking, we can finally check “buy a new car” off our to-do list. We’ll add “make car payment” to the list in its place. Those few months of driving free were fun.

 

In other news, Lucy is the size of another type of squash, weighing in at 3 pounds. My sister has been waiting for today. Some days she works in the NICU and terms babies "feeder babies" once they make it to 32 weeks. Meaning that even if Lucy were born now, she'd most likely only need to be fed to build up body mass, and probably wouldn't need major surgeries to be kept alive.

Super excited to pick up our new ride this weekend.

We'll continue to practice Poor Mans March, despite this one minor setback...

Day 222

Either I've got it good or some pregnant women complain... A LOT. 

Kyle and I attended our first childbirth class at Union Hospital last night. The instructor started by having the women list their symptoms, and the list went on, and on, and on...
and on...
and on. Luckily Lucy hasn't been giving me too much trouble. The class was informative and goes on for 6 more Tuesdays (only 5 more for Kyle, since he will probably skip the breast feeding class). The instructor had a fake baby that was the size of a baby born at 28-30 weeks, he was way too tiny. We decided that Lucy needs to cook for at least another 7 or 8 weeks. I telepathically sent her the memo.

I've been feeling much better and am finally over whatever it was that I had the last few weeks.

Poor Man's March has been... trying. I've used up one fast food credit. I also cheated this morning and stopped at Starbucks. Then I convinced Kyle to stop too, so I didn't feel so bad. We had to buy the dogs food (I think they might be our  largest expense after restaurants!) We've done well at cooking at home, using up items in our pantry/freezer and eating left overs. I've been tempted to buy some things, but I've banked them in the back of my head as "things to buy on April 1st". Hopefully by April 1st I'll have either forgotten about them or realized that we don't really need them.

Tonight we're going to go to Indy to look at a few Nissan Xterras. Every time we find a car we like, it sells before we can even go look at it. This time we're not dilly dallying around. Hopefully we find something we like at a reasonable price.

31 weeks

Today we kick off Poor Man's March.

Today little Lucy is also the size of a pineapple... yikes!

 

Today's unnecessary comment from a guy at work "Wow, you sure you don't have twins or triplets in there?"

Today's other unnecessary comment from a guy at work "How much have you gained? 30 pounds? It looks like a lot more than that"

Today Lucy and I have to go to the doctor again. That means 90 minutes of waiting and 5 minutes of actually seeing the doctor. I'll be sure to bring my kindle!